Quotes About Courage

Danger, you know, sometimes makes timid men bold.

Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence. . . . Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. . . . Great necessities call out great virtues.

Great necessities call forth great leaders.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

It was a long time before I realized that you don't have to start right, you just have to start. Put pen to paper, allow yourself the freedom to write badly, to get it wrong, stop looking over your own shoulder.

Abigail Van Buren

Few persons appreciate the steadiness and courage required, when all around is in flight and confusion, for a force to advance steadily to the post of danger in front and meet the exulting enemy. Such men are heroes, and far more worthy of honor than those who fight in the full blaze of successful warfare.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

I feel just like the boy who stubbed his toe–too damned badly hurt to laugh and too damned proud to cry!

[I feel] somewhat like the boy in Kentucky who stubbed his toe while running to see his sweetheart. The boy said he was too big to cry, and far too badly hurt to laugh.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act of heroism" p 61

Mariamma, sometimes when you are most afraid, when you feel most helpless, that is when God is pointing out a path for you.

A good surgeon needs courage for which a good pair of balls is a prerequisite

she found her greatness, at last, found it in her suffering. Once you have greatness, who needs anything else?

Screw your courage to the sticking place." - Lady MacBeth